FORM 20-F THOMSON multimedia - Technicolor

ITEM 6 — DIRECTORS, SENIOR MANAGEMENT AND EMPLOYEES
A — Directors and Senior Management
Board of Directors
Our management is entrusted to a Board of Directors, which has fifteen members, including
thirteen Directors and two Censeurs (non-voting Board members). Members of the Board of
Directors are appointed for five years, except Directors representing the employees and Censeurs,
who are appointed for eighteen months. Members of the Board of Directors must hold at least one
hundred shares and must resign at the age of seventy, except Directors representing the employees
and Censeurs.
Among the thirteen Directors currently on our Board, one has been appointed by the French
State, two have been elected as independent directors, three have been proposed by Thomson S.A.,
each of Alcatel, Carlton, DIRECTV, Microsoft and NEC has appointed one Director, pursuant to their
original investment agreements in our company, and two have been elected by the employees. The
appointment of the two Censeurs will be proposed to the shareholders at the next ordinary general
shareholders’ meeting scheduled to be held on May 3, 2002. The Board of Directors met nine times
during 2001.
Board Committees
In March 1999, the Board of Directors formed three advisory committees:
) The Strategy Committee advises the Board of Directors on projects linked to our development
(investments and competitiveness), the development of industrial partnerships and the review
of draft strategic memoranda of understanding. The Strategy Committee met three times
in 2001.
) The People and Organization Committee examines questions relating to the operation of the
Board of Directors, management compensation, employee shareholding projects and
profit-sharing incentive plans. The People and Organization Committee met three times
in 2001.
) The Audit Committee supervises the quality of our accounting and financial statements as well
as all control procedures. The Audit Committee met twice in 2001.
The following table shows the names of the members of the Board of Directors, their main
occupations, the dates of their initial appointment and the expiration dates of their current term.
Initially Other business
Principal Occupation Appointed Term activities outside
Name or Employment to Board Expires Thomson
Directors
Thierry Breton (1)(3) .................... Chairman and CEO, March 1997 2004 Chairman, Thomson
Thomson S.A.; Director, AXA,
Bouygues Telecom,
Rhodia, Schneider
Electric S.A., Dexia
and la Poste (the
French Postal Office)
Pierre Cabanes (3) ..................... Chairman, Antée June 1988 2004 N/A
S.A.S.
Frank Dangeard (2) .................... Vice Chairman of the March 1999 2004 N/A
Board and Senior
Executive Vice
President, Thomson
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